DER PLAN Geri Reig Originally released 1980 CD / LP (180g vinyl) / download Release date: July 27, 2012 Label: Bureau B In a few words Cat- no.: BB104 Barcode (EAN): Der Plan (Moritz R®, Frank Fenstermacher, Pyrolator) are seen as key pioneers of the German New Wave (Neue Deutsche CD 4047179633321 LP 4047179633314 Welle). They revolutionized synthesizer pop on their debut album Distributor: Indigo “Geri Reig” (1980): produced with minimal means, at times Indigo order no.: experimental electronic music, playful bordering on dilettantish, 963332 (CD) and always with a sense of humour. Brothers in the spirit of The 963331 (LP) Residents, but more radical. Digipak reissue with liner notes by Carsten Friedrichs, rare photos and six bonus tracks Tracklisting: available as CD, download and 180g vinyl 1. Adrenalin lässt das Blut kochen 2. Geri Regi 3. Persisches Cowboy Golf 4. Gefährliche Clowns 5. Kleine Grabesstille “Geri Reig” is Der Plan’s debut album, but not their first release. 6. Der Weltaufstandsplan 7. Hans und Gabi An EP, recorded with the aid of an Electric Memo dictation 8. Commerce extérieur mondial preceded “Geri Reig”. But the band is not very keen on sentimentale reissueing this early work. Why did they call themselves “Der 9. Was ich von mir denke Plan” actually? “A concept which has something to do with the 10. San José Car Muzak 11. Erste Begegnung mit dem Tod capacity of people to think and shape their future” as Plan 12. ch bin schizophren member Moritz Reichelt, alias Moritz R®, once explained. 13. Nessie 14.Gefährliche Clowns (manisch-idiotisch) 15. Die Welt ist schlecht Der Plan at that time comprised Moritz Reichelt, Frank Fenster- Bonus: macher, Robert Görl and Chrislo Haas. Their music was 16. Es piept menacing, fragmented noise rock, still with guitar and drums, but 17. Fürstenwall far removed from the typical (rock) music of the period. 18. Intermezzo 19. Dark Porn 20. Heinz, komm zum Feuer When Görl and Haas departed (to form DAF), guitars and drums 21. Money Honey also disappeared from Der Plan. New on the team: Kurt Dahlke alias Pyrolator. This was the line-up which recorded “Geri Reig” in Reichelt’s Düsseldorf office with a two-channel tape machine. Discography: “Geri Reig” is a punk album in the truest and best sense. New, 1980 Geri Reig threatening and, at the same time, humorous. Whilst other bands 1981 Normalette Surprise of the era stamped with the seal of “punk” played a faster and 1982 Die letzte Rache 1984 Japlan harder version of 1950s rock and roll or 1960s garage rock, Der 1987 Es ist eine fremd und Plan, like a handful of contemporaries such as The Residents or seltsame Welt Throbbing Gristle, not only rejected traditional song structures 1989 Die Peitsche des Lebens but jettisoned the whole instrument list. That’s punk for you! 1993 Live At The Tiki Ballroom 2004 Die Verschwörung Allied to a deep aversion to rock music and the cliché that goes with it, was the wish to create something of their own. And “Geri Reig” is certainly idiosyncratic: fragments and songs, raspy and fragile, melodies and interference, ambient sounds up front in the Promo contact: mix. Bureau B Matthias Kümpflein Tel. 0049-(0)40-881666-63 Fine in theory and – rare though it may be – excellent in practice. [email protected] And it just gets better: the album was well received. Moritz R®: “As if everyone had been waiting for it.” – “The world is a bad Cover/press kit download: place”? („Die Welt ist schlecht?“, cf. Track 15). Not always! www.bureau-b.com/releases .